Bieber’s Blush War, The Lionsgate Den, Johnson’s Israel Pincer

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Dylan Byers and Washington Post chief executive Will Lewis walk through his newly unveiled plan to fix Jeff Bezos’s media heirloom. Is it pulled straight from the McKinsey handbook, or merely a prelude to the next plan?

Plus, below the fold: William D. Cohan details an only-in-Hollywood micro-scandal surrounding Lionsgate. Rachel Strugatz foreshadows the looming Bieber-Gomez blush wars. Tina Nguyen unpacks Mike Johnson’s pro-Israel crusade. And on The Powers That Be, John Heilemann joins Peter Hamby to discuss the White House’s electoral calculus, the realities of the Trump legal sitch, and the evolving media landscape.

DYLAN BYERS

Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis finally unveiled his plan to fix Jeff Bezos’s media heirloom—a mix of new subscription tiers, some management realignment, and other uncontroversial ideas. Is this the best he could find in the McKinsey handbook, or is it merely a prelude to the next plan?

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WILLIAM D. COHAN

An only-in-Hollywood story about Lionsgate, the Screaming Eagle SPAC, and “creditor-on-creditor violence.”

RACHEL STRUGATZ

News and notes on Hailey Bieber’s entrance into the blush wars, and her new foe: Selena Gomez.

TINA NGUYEN

The speaker has cleverly, and perhaps cynically, turned a crusade against antisemitism into an opportunity to drive a wedge through House Democrats—and isolate enemies to his right, too.